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IWantGod
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I already fired you! (Jobs)
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QContinuum
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Define “right” in a corporate context. In the corporation, its code of ethics are determined by its executives, usually with (name removed by moderator)ut from HR and legal department. The prime directive is to increase profits. Full stop.
Did Jobs’ firing the programmer meet that end?
In a corporation, that is what makes it “right” or “wrong.”
Did Jobs’ firing the programmer meet that end?
In a corporation, that is what makes it “right” or “wrong.”
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Xanthippe_Voorhees
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Yelling in the workplace is terrible.
Jobs was notoriously short-tempered.
The programer was trying to tell his boss that something was not important. The boss told him it was. He came back that it wasn’t.
The programer did not understand the whole concept Jobs was going for. That’s the thing. It’s like a janitor that said that washing the windows wasn’t important to get ready for the Gala. The janitor doesn’t get to decide.
Jobs was notoriously short-tempered.
The programer was trying to tell his boss that something was not important. The boss told him it was. He came back that it wasn’t.
The programer did not understand the whole concept Jobs was going for. That’s the thing. It’s like a janitor that said that washing the windows wasn’t important to get ready for the Gala. The janitor doesn’t get to decide.
Tis_Bearself
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Publicly contradicting a boss’ “vision” in an industry like software that has no job security is a good way to get yourself fired on the spot. I’m sure a guy who’d do that would be quite well aware he might get fired and equally sure that he wouldn’t starve to death as a result. Also, no one is irreplaceable.
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LittleFlower
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It wasn’t easy to work at Apple, and the NYTimes article is a great piece.By the end, Grignon wasn’t just relieved; he was drunk. He’d brought a flask of Scotch to calm his nerves. “And so there we were in the fifth row or something — engineers, managers, all of us — doing shots of Scotch after every segment of the demo. There were about five or six of us, and after each piece of the demo, the person who was responsible for that portion did a shot. When the finale came — and it worked along with everything before it, we all just drained the flask. It was the best demo any of us had ever seen. And the rest of the day turned out to be just a [expletive] for the entire iPhone team. We just spent the entire rest of the day drinking in the city. It was just a mess, but it was great.”
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